One of the strangest outcomes of the recent firing of Free Press editorial page editor Stephen Henderson was a tweet by Robert James Ritchie, the entertainer better known as "Kid Rock." On Dec. 15, just as news hit the street that Henderson had been fired after an internal investigation found "examples of inappropriate behavior," Ritchie took to Twitter to exult in Henderson's perceived comeuppance.

But, as a colleague pointed out, you'll pull out all your hair trying to make political sense of Ritchie's antics. And you still won't get anywhere. Because the one common thread running through all Ritchie's shenanigans is the thing most important to him: Ritchie's own soaring feelings of entitlement. That which wounds his ego is consistently opposed. That which swears allegiance his swollen sense of self-satisfaction is always heartily welcomed.